Ingredients

With any recipe, you first need the ingredients in order to produce your culinary masterpiece. Before getting into specific hardware requirements, you may need to have a better grasp on the general functions of the equipment you'll be using to connect all the pieces.

Hubs, Switches, Routers, etc

repeaters -> hubs -> switches -> routers...

repeater... hubs...

layered architecture.

CROSS-OVER CABLES:

Category 5 (CAT-5) Ethernet cables: 8 wires. In 100 MB ethernet 4 are in use 2 for send 2 for receive. Send/Receive are swapped in an crossover cable. A switch does this internally.

If you don't have a router but have a spare old computer sitting around, you can turn it into a Coyote Linux Router.

Boot the server, and tell it to

It does the hardware detect, finds the CD-ROM, then scans it.


DMZ has no firewall...


EdubuntuDocumentation/EdubuntuCookbook/GettingStarted (last edited 2009-04-29 23:26:20 by adsl201-244131014)